Editorial: Patrick Brown in the era of sexual misconduct allegations

Near the end of the 2011 federal election campaign, news broke that then-NDP leader Jack Layton had been found naked by police in a massage parlour some years earlier, when he was a city councillor. The parlour in question, police believed, was also a bawdy house. Layton, shaken by the news report, said he had been there only because he had sore muscles and, well, needed a massage. He said he did not know other activities were suspected on the premises. 
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